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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2026
Pleasing no one: Netanyahu puts election first with Gaza decision
Israel will be voting for the first time since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the deadliest ever against the country.
University students march in a demonstration to show support for the Houthi movement amid escalating tensions with Saudi Arabia in Yemen's rebel-held capital, Sana'a, on July 22.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2026
Saudi Arabia can break the Houthis¡¯ grip on the Red Sea
It¡¯s the Saudis who have to take the lead and logistical support from their Red Sea bases will be the backbone of the effort to stop the Houthis.
Catholic nuns and Christian worshippers attend mass at the Latin Monastery in the Palestinian Christian town of Taybeh, northeast of the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June.
WORLD
Aug 8, 2026
Exodus: West Bank hardships drive out Palestinian Christians
Since the Gaza war began, attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have become an almost daily occurrence.
Japan's famous Fuji Rock festival this year included flag-waving for regimes whose actions contradict the ideals of peaceful assembly and human rights that reflect unexamined political sympathies that risk legitimizing oppressive regimes.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2026
Flag-waving at Fuji Rock: Conviction or fashion?
Music has long served as an expression of a fundamental human freedom ¡ª the right to speak, to challenge authority and to be heard without fear of the state.
Palestinians attend the funeral of 112 members of the Hassayna and Abu Sharia clan, who were killed in an Israeli strike in 2023 and whose remains were only recently recovered from beneath the rubble, according to Gaza's Civil Defense, in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2026
Gazans bury nearly an entire clan found in rubble in mass funeral for 112
According to Palestinian authorities, 308 members of the extended Al-Hassayna family were killed on November 22, 2023 when Israeli airstrikes brought down a cluster of buildings.
A woman walks past a mural depicting a U.S. drone on a wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The U.S. cannot force a decisive victory over Iran because modern technology has eroded America's military dominance.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2026
A misdiagnosis of U.S. failings leaves Trump stuck in Iran
Iran has demonstrated already that, should Trump fulfill his threats to destroy the nation¡¯s infrastructure, it has the capacity to do the same to America¡¯s Gulf allies.
The International Criminal Court in the Hague in September 2025. The U.S. backed the ICC when it pursued Vladimir Putin but denounced the court as politically motivated when it issued warrants for Israeli leaders.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2026
America is betting against international law
Great powers cannot rely on legal immunity forever, as international accountability mechanisms increasingly constrain even the most influential states.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) greet each other as other officials look on at the funeral service for late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 31, 2026
Behind the White House¡¯s closed-door diplomacy
Media reports around the world have suggested the secrecy reflected Netanyahu¡¯s waning influence or growing dissatisfaction with him within the Trump administration.
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday
WORLD
Jul 31, 2026
Trump says peace plan will lead to Hamas disarmament, but Israel support uncertain
A Hamas official and a diplomat close to the Cairo talks said the progress would be tested by Israel¡¯s response and whether this allowed a broad accord to be reached.
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after arriving in Riyadh in May 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 31, 2026
Trump¡¯s Saudi nuclear deal is too important to lie about
The Saudi nuclear deal is in the same way designed to solve a tactical problem precipitated by the Iran war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2026
Trump and Netanyahu explored all Iran options including attack, Israeli official says
The two leaders discussed diplomacy, economic pressure and force at their meeting in the White House.
People wait for former hostage Alon Ohel to return home after leaving the hospital in Lavon, Israel, on Oct. 24, 2025.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 29, 2026
The key issues that will shape Israel¡¯s elections
Voters in Israel will weigh in on issues ranging from conscription to the 2023 Hamas attack when they head to the polls on Oct. 27.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) poses for a picture with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 29, 2026
Trump and Netanyahu meet as new Iran attack complicates diplomacy
Netanyahu was in Washington for the funeral Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime Iran hawk.
A fresh grocery vendor at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem in January 2025. Since the Hamas attacks in October 2023, Israel has been in a state of near constant war ¡ª in Gaza, in Lebanon and most recently against Iran.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 28, 2026
Ongoing conflict starves Israeli manufacturers of foreign equipment technicians
Makers are increasingly stuck with imported machinery that has stopped functioning or can¡¯t be installed, without the foreign skilled staff needed to assist.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, U.S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders prepare to take a family photo at the Group of Seven summit in Evian, France, on June 16.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jul 28, 2026
What Trump¡¯s new global order means for Japan
From trade and alliances to spheres of influence, the U.S. president is accelerating a shift away from the liberal international order.
A woman walks past images of current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei (right), his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left), and the late Ruhollah Khomeini on her way to the Grand Mosalla in Tehran on July 5.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2026
Why Iran¡¯s hardline regime won¡¯t change
Iran¡¯s founding doctrine of uncompromising clerical rule and system?preserving repression ensures the regime survives, making outside pressure and internal unrest ineffective.
Saba Rabah, the top-ranked student in the science stream of the Palestinian national high school exams, celebrates with family at the Al Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Society
Jul 27, 2026
Gaza teen triumphs in school despite war, loss and displacement
Saba Rabah, 18, emerged as the top-ranked student in the science stream of the Palestinian national high school exams.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (right) receives U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the People's Palace in Damascus on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 27, 2026
Syrian president tells Al Jazeera his country seeks security deal with Israel
A deal ?could ?pave the way for comprehensive peace between both countries without ?compromising Syria¡¯s right to the Golan Heights, President ?Ahmad al-Sharaa says.
A Palestinian boy sits near a damaged mosque, which Palestinians say was damaged by Israeli settlers, in Qusra near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 26, 2026
Israeli settlers set fire to West Bank mosques after deadly clash
The Israeli military said troops sent to Qusra, which sits near several large Israeli settlements, had found graffiti and signs of arson and ?were searching for suspects.
The Syrian flag flies at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, on July 22.
WORLD
Jul 26, 2026
Syria reports fresh Israeli incursion and shelling in south
Israeli officials have said they intend to keep forces in a ¡°security zone¡± in southern Syria, where they seek a broader demilitarized zone.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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